How Jeanine Pirro is reshaping crime enforcement in DC

United States Attorney Jeanine Pirro has emerged as the face of the Trump administration’s crime crackdown in Washington, D.C., transforming how justice is served in the nation’s capital in less than two weeks since the federal effort began.

From directing prosecutors to pursue the harshest possible charges to limiting which firearm cases will be brought to court, Pirro is reshaping the scope of criminal law enforcement in ways that extend well beyond the temporary federalization of the Metropolitan Police Department. She is also leading a sensitive inquiry into whether the city’s police department manipulated crime data, a flashpoint that President Donald Trump and the local police union have seized on to argue the city’s crime problem is worse than officials admit.

U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro points

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